Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-21 Thread John Salerno
Kent Johnson wrote: >> At least in the Bay Area, the jobmarket for Python programmers is wild, >> right now -- firms such as Google, Pixar, BitTorrent, IronPort, etc, >> etc, all hungry for Pythonistas -- BayPIGgies mailing list bitching over >> too many job-offer posts, and the nuisance of all th

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-21 Thread Ant
> So switch jobs -- it's a good time. If it were that easy I would.. However, I have family commitments keeping me in Yorkshire (UK) (as well as the fact that I really like the area!), and the jobs in the area are all Java, .NET (predominantly C#) and C++. Always on the lookout for Python work th

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-21 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Alex Martelli napisał(a): > At least in the Bay Area, the jobmarket for Python programmers is wild, > right now -- firms such as Google, Pixar, BitTorrent, IronPort, etc, > etc, all hungry for Pythonistas -- BayPIGgies mailing list bitching over > too many job-offer posts, and the nuisance of all

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-21 Thread Kent Johnson
Alex Martelli wrote: > Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Python ruined my life. Python ruined me for Java coding too. > At least in the Bay Area, the jobmarket for Python programmers is wild, > right now -- firms such as Google, Pixar, BitTorrent, IronPort, etc, > etc, all hungry for Pythonist

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-20 Thread Alex Martelli
Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python ruined my life. > > I am a Java programmer by profession, and ever since learning Python, I > find it a real chore to open Eclipse and write Java code (or worse - > the XML config files that seem to glue J2EE together). And while I > spend some of my spare

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-20 Thread Edward Elliott
I know this isn't comp.lang.java but I can't resist... Jarek Zgoda wrote: > Going from Python to Java (as it's in my case) is real pain I wish > nobody to feel... Even with multi-million support for Java from giants > like Sun, IBM or Oracle, I find it much easier to gain full control over > m

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-20 Thread Philippe Martin
Yes, and then you have to answer Java/C/C++ job/contracts opening knowing real well the mistake they're making ... as well as you are for answering ;-) Ant wrote: > Python ruined my life. > > I am a Java programmer by profession, and ever since learning Python, I > find it a real chore to open

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-20 Thread Ant
Python ruined my life. I am a Java programmer by profession, and ever since learning Python, I find it a real chore to open Eclipse and write Java code (or worse - the XML config files that seem to glue J2EE together). And while I spend some of my spare time liberated by Python, I spend 10 times a

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-20 Thread Jarek Zgoda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): > I wanted to thank those members of the Python community that took the > time to answer my questions about interfaces and plug-ins in Python. I > have discovered that Python is a very powerful language, and one that I > look forward to using for Linux development. I

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-19 Thread KvS
Well then I'll also take the opportunity to put in my 2 cts. In the past I've tried several times to master Java as I at that time understood it to be *the* hype wrt programming but never really succeeded in getting beyond "Hello world" :D. Also got bored with all the technicalities pretty much eac

Re: Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-19 Thread RK
Me too. I feel like I've been living under a rock. Did all this just happen in the last few years? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Thanks from the Java Developer

2006-04-19 Thread redefined . horizons
I wanted to thank those members of the Python community that took the time to answer my questions about interfaces and plug-ins in Python. I have discovered that Python is a very powerful language, and one that I look forward to using for Linux development. I have found the support for Python much